Word: persons
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...completed. So of this temple of legal learning, benefiting all our society as well as the individuals who are trained within it, a realization of the good labor and thought which has already gone into its construction leads to a great desire for more. And in the person of Dean Pound the architect who can build well the parts which remain to be wrought is ready and waiting. Boston transcript. Boston Transcript...
...those religious sects which forbid participation in war, as well as clergymen and students at theological colleges, will be excused from service. That provision is practically sound, for if a man, having weighed well his decision, would honestly and actually prefer to be exposed to the insults, the personal and material injury of an insolent foreign foe, rather than defend in war his person and his property against insult and injury, then he should not be forced to take up arms in defence of that which he so little regards. Other men, who prize more highly honor and liberty...
...University have been called upon to give their services to their nation. They will give them to the very death. They are called on now to render the second and the lesser duty, in person and by influence to entrust their savings to the government for its uses, that our nation, in making war may lack gold no more than men. We can believe that the response will be generous, the result inspiring...
...those men who are not called to go with the first chosen army, there must come a great measure of desolation at knowing how brief will be the service of these young men. There will not be one person in this wide nation who will not have a close friend leave at the first call. They who remain may trust, with that vague and lasting trust which is given to mortals, that those who are the crosest to them will some way be spared in the blind lot of battle. But such trust is sad and futile when we realize...
...Commission has voluntarily gone further than formality and friendship would demand, and in visiting representative cities of the country it has introduced the people in person to France. That act of cordiality will not be valueless. An awakened trust in that brave republican nation which now is fighting for its very life against the enemies of all free governments has arisen in America. We remember, as we might have in idleness forgotten, the help rendered by the sword of Lafayette in our own hour of need...